Dakota RoughRiders News & Announcements

“The Dakota Rough Riders will sponsor an Open House at the Indoor Range on Friday, December 31, 2021. Time of the event is 6pm – 9pm. There will be a potluck supper and shooting from the 50 foot line plus some different target games. Members and Non-Members are invited. In addition, Sam and Tom will be set up to take 2022 membership renewals and new memberships. Keys (2022) for the outdoor range will also be issued. Sam and Tom plan to be there from 4pm till 6pm. If we have enough time – we will also do outdoor range certifications for new members for the outdoor range. Please join us for a fun evening at the indoor range on New Year’s Eve. If you have questions about the potluck dinner or the shooting events – call Rip at 223-3085.  If you have questions concerning memberships and keys – please call Tom Thompson at 701-220-4601.

We are needing volunteers for the Round up over Labor Day weekend. Anyone who needs to get there hours in for this year contact Mike Ripplinger – 701-223-3085 Thanks

Howdy all! As you all know we had damage done at the range so we will be having Work Days this weekend, on Saturday, July 21, and, if needed, on Sunday, July 22. We will be rebuilding the Barber Shop, but we also have a lot of other things that need to be done. So if anyone needs to get their volunteer hours in for the BMRPA, we can use the help. Thanks! Mike “Rod-Iron-Rip” Ripplinger

We have scheduled a work day for this Sunday, May 20, starting at 9:00 a.m. to finish work on the berm project. Tom Liebel will be staying out at the range over the weekend, so if anyone else wants to make a weekend out of it you are welcome to camp. For more information, please contact Mike Ripplinger at (701) 223-3085.

Here’s the perfect chance for you to get some volunteer hours before the end of the year! At 10:00 a.m. this coming Saturday (December 2), work will start on the Cowboy Annex to finish building the dividing berms. For more information, please contact Tom Liebel at (701) 226-3620.

The Dakota RoughRiders are sponsoring a New Year’s Eve Open House event. Come and join us at the indoor range from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. for an evening filled with fun games and free shooting. We will have a pot-luck supper, so bring your favorite dish or dessert. Come out and have some fun! For more information, please contact Mike Ripplinger at (701) 223-3085.

Howdy all, hope all is well. Just a note letting everyone know what is going on at the range and with the saloon. The new berm is going in and hopefully it will be done soon. As for the saloon, first of all thanks to all the guys that helped in setting the poles and lifting up the saloon front. That brings us to the next step. Being it is going to be a nice day this Saturday, we decided to see if we could get the floor on the saloon done, before the weather changes. So if anyone can help on Saturday, that would be great. The plan is to eat breakfast Saturday morning at Marlin’s truck stop (east end of Bismarck) at 7:30 a.m. and then go out to the range, starting work about 9:00 a.m. Hope to see ya at the range! Mike “Rod-Iron-Rip” Ripplinger

Thursday, September 3 – RoughRider Roundup Match (Outdoor Range) The Cowboy Action Shooters are looking for help to set things up for their annual match. For more information, contact Mike Ripplinger at (701) 223-3085.

Howdy to all and Merry Christmas! Hope all is well. Just a little note that we will be having a DRR meeting on Saturday, January 17, at the indoor range. We will start with breakfast at 8:30 a.m., followed by the meeting. Please download a copy of the agenda and look it over. We need everyone’s input so I hope everyone can make it. Mike “Rod-Iron-Rip” Ripplinger

The Dakota RoughRiders are sponsoring a New Year’s Eve Open House event. Come and join us at the indoor range from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. for an evening filled with fun games and free shooting. We will have a pot-luck supper, so bring your favorite dish or dessert. Come out and have some fun! For more information, please contact Mike Ripplinger at (701) 223-3085.

Howdy to all cowboys and cowgirls! We are going to hold a RoughRiders meeting on October 26, Saturday morning, at the indoor range. We will be serving a breakfast at 8:00 am. before the meeting. Agenda: To start planning and discuss our three day match: RoughRiders Roundup which will be held on August 29-31, 2014. Please try to attend, we need everyone’s input. Rod-Iron-Rip

On Saturday, October 5th, we will be having our Annual Fun Shoot. Wild Bunch will start at 11:00 a.m. and the main match will start at 1:00 p.m. Safety meeting at 12:45 p.m. We will also be serving diner from 11:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Sloppy joes and the fixings. We are charging $5.00 a plate for a fundraiser for a small generator to use in the sign-up shack. Rod-Iron-Rip

The Dakota RoughRiders will be meeting this Thursday, November 15, at 5:30 p.m. at the Johnson Family Marksmanship Center.

Please note that the Cowboy Action Shooting match to be held on April 28 will start at 10:00 a.m. Registration will begin at 9:00 a.m. Also, the match will be held at the indoor range.

The electric company will be repairing the power lines this weekend. In order to keep everybody safe we have decided to cancel the match. We are sorry for any inconvenience. Be sure to keep an eye on the calendar since we might be able to reschedule later this month.

The April Cowboy Action Shooting match is cancelled because of the weather and the Easter holliday. We are sorry for any inconvenience.

Set up for Sunday’s match will be at approximately 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 21, and we sure could use a hand! There are stages to set up, mowing to be done and some set repair work. Many hands make light work and we could use all the help we can get. If anyone would like a ride out to the range, please contact Obadiah Might at (701) 471-8344. Thunder Wolf

How many of us have wondered who’s who amongst our fellow shooters? Well, wonder no more, the printing press has made its way to town and we can now issue posters. Yes, you will now be able to put a name on that face you keep seeing on the street or in a dance hall or saloon in some dusty town. As a side note, if any of you would like to have an 8″ x 10″ print of your mugshot, send me an email. For those whose picture has been taken, I need your tagline in order to complete the mugshot. For the others, don’t worry, I’ll be there at our shoot in August, road conditions and weather permitting. Thunder Wolf

Howdy to all cowboys and cowgirls! The Dakota RoughRiders are pleased to welcome you on their brand new website. Most of the site is done but there are some neat features comin’ our way, including a picture gallery of our members (it’ll make it easier to recognize everybody, especially for me who’s a new member). So be sure to keep checkin’ with us in the comin’ months for all the new things to come! In the meantime, keep warm and be sure to look at our calendar for our upcoming practices and matches at the indoor range. Thunder Wolf

Our final match of the year was shot under threatening skies, but went off without a hitch. There was a lot happening, and happening fast! First… Congratulations to Dakota Psycho as he took top honors in the regular match! The “Gold Rush” team event was won by the team of Blackwater Bill and Rough Rider Ray. Good job! The fastest time in the qualifying round for the man-on-man event was Blackwater Bill with a 4.59 second run! (Told you things happened fast) And the Winner of the Man-On-Man Shootout was none other than Not-So-Slim Jim. Congratulations! I’d like to thank all who came out and shot with us this year. You made it another sucessful year for the Dakota RoughRiders. Good Lord willin’, we can gather again next year and fight all them bad hombres, round up all those strays and save all them that need savin’. Hope you all had as much fun this year as I did. Thanks again, Blake Stone

Well folks, as the sun sets on another shooting season at Moffit, I’d like to take this oopportunity to thank everyone who turned out for our shoots andmade this year a complete success. I only have one complaint about this season…some people are shooting entirely too fast! There’s got to be a safety issue here. Don’t ya think? But seriously, this was a great year! It was fun to see the vast improvement of not only our new shooters, but some of the old timers cranked it up a notch, too. Good competition brings out the beset in all of us. And the competition here can get pretty hot, heavy and hilarious! Good comraderie brings out a feelling of family. This year we became a closer knit bunch of cowboys and cowgirls as we worked together to turn out fun shoots for everyone. We’ve seen a lot fo new shooters this year and hope that next year they will continue to be a part of our group. As for the last shoot of the season, we had 20 shooters. Johnny Otter made the trip from the Southeast to show us how things are done. Joe Coe was hot on his trail all day, but came up just a bit short when the final tallies where in. Well donne, Johnny! I’d also like to congratulate the Clean Match Shooters. We had 6 Clean Shooters representing 6 different categories! Dakota Dealer shooting (double) Duelist; Doc Hell, Silver Senior; Joe Coe, Modern; Misty Target, Ladies Traditional; Pistolero Shay, 49er; and Tom C, Senior. Congrats!! Keep checking the website for news updates. We are planning a couple more work days at the range to finish up a few things. We’ll use the website to announce when they will be. In the words of Theodore Roosevelt, “I may not shoot well, but I know how to shoot often!” Thank you to all for a great year! Blake Stone

At this point I usually make some comment about how the weather was really lousy, but being the cowboys and cowgirls that we are, we managed to get through it. However, for the August 3rd shoot the weather was really nice, in fact it was probably the niceset day we have had all year. Low 80’s with a nice breeze (not a wind, but a breeze), the new shooting bays and stage fronts were looking good, and our friends Segundo, Trail Driver, and Grease Cup came up from South Dakota, Deadly Dale and Stephanie came over, and Roughrider Ray, Renegade Rene, Beowowe Mama, Seldom Sober, and Seldom Awake Kid even made the trip from Belfield to shoot with us. I figure we had shooters from across the state to initiate the new cowboy annex. With such a good turn out and high spirits, you would expect an absolutely wonderful day of shooting. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case for quite a few people. There were a lot of equipment malfunctions and procedurals to go around. I’m not saying that we didn’t have a great time, but it would seem that our mental capacity was stretched to its limits. The old saying that when the buzzer goes off your brains go to your boots might be a little bit of an undersstatement. In some cases the brains hit the boots at the loadding table. Especially when yours truly stages his guns wrong and then proceeds to shoot the guns in the wrong order. Yes, I did write the stage, yes, I did read the scenario, and no, I was not the first shooter. Excuses…well I just don’t have one. In fact, this was not the first, nor the last little brain toot of the day. Someone (I won’t mention Joe’s name) made a similar mistake on the same stage. Yes, targets were shot out of order and guns just didn’t want to play, but, by golly, we got the new annex broke in right. With 25 shooters we had a really great day. It was also great to see Sandy, Striped Buffalo’s mom come out to see her daughter in action, and Striped Buffalo was polite enough to put on a show. Watch out, Doc Syn, your daughter is gettin’ pretty good with the six guns. Misty Target will have to shoot with the ladies next year, but I think that Striped Buffalo will step in andd fill her shoes and make us all here at the Dakota RoughRiders mighty proud. Before we can shoot at our range again, we are going to help out the Missouri Valley Shooting Association with their annual kids day at McLain Bottoms public range If there is anyone that wants to help out, we won’t turn them away. We plan on being there at 8:00 a.m. and get things set up. The kids should arrive around nine. We will put on a demonstration at 9ish and then let the kids shoot until noon, at noon we will break for lunch and then do another demonstration and then run until 4:00. I sure understand that some people can’t be out there all day but if you want to come help out for an hour or two we would be more than grateful. I hope to see a lot of faces at Bordertown Shootout over Labor Day weekend, and if we don’t cross paths there, hopefully in September. Until then, keep your stick on the ice. Remember, were all in this together. Dakota Dealer